Title: Say What?

Author: Lexie M

Category: Sci Fi/Romance

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Although I probably would be extremely wealthy by now if I did, but sadly I don't own them, and I don't claim to own them. This is fiction and I am not making any profit out of this at all.

Pairing: M/L

Summary: The pod squad and their human counterparts find out some disturbing news. How will it change the balance of their world as they know it?

Warning: AU. The Parkers are aliens as well from the same planet as the Pod Squad.

A/N: Thank you to all my reviewers for their feedback on my story. I really do take everything you say into consideration. I hope this chapter answers some of your questions so far. I hope to answer the others already posted in your reviews in the next two chapters.

Liz was trying to stay focused while also trying to regain her strength. She knew that her boyfriend, her brother and her friends would try to beat Khivar on their own. There was no possible way they could even make a dent in Khivar's skin when he had his guard up. She looked up to see his sneer. It was totally obvious with the anger written over his face that Isabel had outraged him with just a miniscule amount of distraction.

The sneer reminded her of a not too far distant past event with Khivar's niece.
"If you don't stay away from Max, I'll squash you Liz," Tess sneered at Liz. "I'll bring down all of those who you ever held dear to your heart too. Starting with everyone's favorite Alex."

Liz smirked, "You actually think that you're intimidating me?" She asked folding her arms across her chest. "Remember who here has the most powers and also remember the magnitude of those powers."

Tess smirked, "You don't intimidate me either Liz. You're all talk, no game just like when we were back on Antar."

"Let's just go with that Idea Tess that I am all talk and no game? Let's say I do as you wish? Do you honestly think that he's just going to stop hanging around or following me? You and I both know that's not going to happen. You and I also know that I won't stop being his friend. I maybe acting like a 'petty human', as you like to call earthlings but we both know why he's drawn to me and nothing can break that connection."

"So you're willing to lose your most loyalist friend all because you can't give up on an ex-king who can't be bound to you as long as you pretend to act like an earthling?"

"No I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is you can't choose Max's friends for him. He's got to do that himself."

Tess just glared at Liz, "You just lost yourself a best friend." She stated and then stormed off.

Liz smirked because they had met here in the pod chamber at Tess' request. She knew that Tess couldn't use her teleporting abilities. She didn't even know she had them but Liz knew she had them herself and she'd beat Tess to town. Thinking about the school in her head she made a chant and in just a matter of minutes she was in the eraser room on the second floor.

xXx

Liz walked up to Alex at his locker. She had to laugh at him muttering obscenities under his breath, "Hey Alex, Whatcha looking for?"

"Oh hey Liz, I'm just looking for my notes from yesterday's lecture in chemistry but can't find them. Damn, I must have left them at home."

Liz chuckled, "Oh that's too bad, don't worry as I seem to recall you don't have a test in that class until Friday."

Alex nodded, "So whatcha up to yourself?"

Liz made a meaningful express as if she were thinking and then smiled at Alex, "Just coming to give you great news. You know that foreign exchange problem spot you applied for?" She held back a chuckle at his "Duh" expressed face. "Well congratulations you've been chosen to go to France!"

To say that Alex was shocked was an understatement he looked at his friend and tried to see whether or not this was a joke. Although he knew she worked on the committee that was selecting the candidates. He would have never pegged her for the type to let a biased opinion cloud her judgment. "You're not joking are you?"

"Why would I joke about something like this?" Liz asked rolling her eyes. 'Leave it to Alex to second guess an opportunity of a lifetime.' She thought mentally to herself. Then snapped out of her thought process and looked at him. Explaining all the details to him, "You're plane will be leaving at noon tomorrow so you have to get to the airport by nine a.m. The ticket will be waiting for you at the counter. Oh you better leave and pack now. I know how you get packing for a trip. Remember the camping trip?"

Alex sighed, rolled his eyes and then smiled, "Yes mother." He gasped for a minute, "Oh my god my parents don't know this. I mean it's pretty short notice." He panicked.

Liz turned and rolled her eyes, 'I love him but he is a total Mama's Boy.' "Relax big guy. Their getting a telephone call as we speak."

That bit of information seemed to calm him down. "Ok. I better get going and back for a three month trip in less then twenty-four hours." He said excitedly. Then he hugged Liz and ran off.

Liz had no doubt in her mind that he was going to Maria for this bit of information. She had to do a mind warp on this situation because if Tess meant every word she said to her in the desert. Alex would have to appear at school and the diner as well as every where else that the pod squad earthling gang hung out at.

"I've got twenty four hours to set up a family for Alex to stay at and to get airline tickets." She sighed as she whipped out her cell phone and dialed several numbers while walking towards her next class.

"Hi, I'd like to arrange to get a ticket for your noon flight to Paris tomorrow," she sighed while waiting to see if at this short notice that there would be a spot on the plane. "You have a seat? Great, yes, it'll be under the name of Alex Whitman, a seventeen year old male, window seat preferred. Ok, great, yes, this is a gift so I'd like to pay for it over the phone. No the card won't be present at flight departure. Oh thank you so much," then she picked her credit card out of her wallet and rattled off the numbers on it. "Ok, so the tickets will be available at the counter? Great thank you very much." Then she pressed the end button on the phone.

"Boy the things I do to protect my loved ones and my secret," she said shaking her head. Putting her credit card back in her wallet, she pulled her cell phone open and began dialing several more names. "Hey Birdie, It's your friend Liz... Yes, that one, Listen I need to ask you a huge, huge, huge favor... I have a friend who needs to get out of town for a while and I need him to stay somewhere until everything dies down." 'Literally' she thought while she awaited her friend's answer. "You will? ... Great He'll be on the noon plane tomorrow... So he should land in about forty-eight hours from now... Oh thank you so much... You've got to get him enrolled in your secondary school though, yeah a junior. Bye, talk to you later.... He'll have all the necessary paper work no need to panic... Ok, I have to go now. I'll talk to you later."

Then she ended the call and punched in more numbers. "Ms. Whitman. Hi, It's Liz... Yes it's so good to talk to you too. Listen I'm on the foreign exchange student program committee and I just wanted to tell you that Alex was selected to go to Paris... He's scheduled to leave tomorrow...Yeah, I know it's short notice but someone had backed out due to illness and Alex was the next in line...Oh I already told him. In fact he's already on his way home to back... The tickets will be waiting for him at the counter. Its French Airlines...He'll need his transfer papers to go with him. You know the documents you had to sign a release form for his application... Yes, All you have to do is get them from the office they have them waiting... Ok, we'll congratulations and good luck." She ended the conversation by pressing that all too familiar button and sighed. "When I'm good. I'm good." Then ran into the main office and did a mind warp on the faculty in the room. Then she scrambled to the student files searching for Alex's file and leaving it on the front desk. She forged the principal's handwriting and left a note stating that the Whitman's were going to pick these up for their son's transfer. Then she left taking the mind warp off the faculty while exiting through the door.

"Phew, so far so good got all my bases covered. Tess is mind warped and so is Maria, and Alex." She murmured under her breath.
Looking back on the event Liz felt a little pang of guilt but knew it paid off because Tess finally was shipped back to Antar and Alex was free to come back to the States; though it had to take so doing in convincing his parents and their friends that it was all orchestrated all for Tess' benefit.

"Come on Liz we're getting you out of here," Michael grumbled as he and Max attempted to help Liz up off the ground.

Isabel was still flirting with Khivar, "Why would I distract you. You're my only love and I finally found you and what are you doing when I find you? I find you taking advantage of a measly earthling. Not exactly the reunion I had in mind," she smiled as she walked closer to this man she found grotesque.

As Isabel was sweet talking Khivar Max and Michael slipped out of the granolith chamber undetected. When Isabel felt Max and Michael were out of the room, she growled and flames shot out of her hands and towards Khivar. Then she ran out of the chamber.

Khivar sneered at her weak attempt to hurt him with a fireball and followed her out to the pod chamber.

"Now," Max ordered Kyle. Kyle put the last of the orbs on the ground as Khivar stepped into the middle of the circle.

Khivar growled. "This won't hold me forever Zan. Mark my words this isn't the end. I'll destroy this world you have come to know as home."

"I'm counting on it Khivar," Max growled back. "But until then stay the hell away from Liz and Vilandra or I'll destroy you."

Then the seven teenagers ran out to the vehicles parked outside the dust cropping and jumped in them. Then they all headed back to Roswell.

"Ok, tell me why we just saved a traitor," Isabel grumbled to Michael Kyle and Maria. Max, Alex and Liz were in the jeep. Maria had driven her Jetta behind the others to the desert knowing they would probably need some more room for an extra passenger.

"Why are you calling her the traitor? The traitor is back on Antar." Maria challenged.

"She lied to us. She made us believe we could trust her. She lied us in to the hen house Maria."

"The way I see it Isabel, She did you all of us a favor. She's kept the three of you alive. She's managed to thort a murder attempt on Alex. She's kept all your secrets saved you time and time again from the Special Unit and also your unearthly enemies."

"I never liked her from the moment Max went goo goo eyes for her. I knew she couldn't be trusted but would anyone listen to me? Nooo," she kept rambling.

Maria sighed, "You don't feel that way too do you Michael?"

Michael raked his hands through his hair, "I don't know what to think anymore. It's been a pretty exhausting day. Maybe we should all just get some rest and hopefully be in better moods in the morning." He said trying to be reasonable and according to his friends that would be a first. "Before any of you get any ideas into your heads can it. I'm in no mood for insults or quick come backs."

The ride home was silent in the Jetta but not in the jeep. "What did you think you were doing? You could have gotten yourself killed!" Max's voiced rose as his anger rose too. This startled Liz. She'd never seen him this angry in either life.

"Oh like I really meant to get trapped by Khivar. I just went to that damned Granolith to be alone and vent out my insecurities. He came from behind me and trapped me," she yelled back.

Alex sat in the back in silence not wanting to be in the middle of this argument or for that matter a witness either.

"Damn it Liz, I could have lost you again. That's the third attempt on your life this year alone."

Liz shook his head. "News flash your highness. I have more powerful abilities then you do."

"Why the hell weren't you using them then?"

That question was a good one. Why wasn't she using her powers the right way back there? "I don't know."

"Oh that's just great. First I find out that you're not even an alien. Then I find out me being guilty for loving you instead of Tess was not even suppose to happen, now this. You're on twenty-four hour watch from now on." Max growled not being rational at all.

"Oh real mature Max."

Max glared at Liz out of the corner of his eye, "Don't start Liz. You aren't the only one who has been holding out on their powers."

That comment made Liz worry. What did he mean by that? "Fine, I'm sorry it won't ever happen again." Then she slammed her body in to the seat's back partion.